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Intoxicación por Barbasco (Lonchocarpus urucu). Reporte de Caso

open access: yesRevista de la Facultad de Farmacia, 2022
El Barbasco (Lonchocarpus urucu) es una especie de planta de la familia Febacea, que tiene actividad plaguicida contra una amplia variedad de insectos y arácnidos. La rotenona es el compuesto activo del Barbasco. Cuando es ingerido en grandes cantidades, la rotenona tiene baja toxicidad en aves, pero es moderadamente tóxica en ratas.
Castro, Carlos   +6 more
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An indigenous religious ritual selects for resistance to a toxicant in a livebearing fish [PDF]

open access: yesBiology Letters, 2011
Human-induced environmental change can affect the evolutionary trajectory of populations. In Mexico, indigenous Zoque people annually introduce barbasco, a fish toxicant, into the Cueva del Azufre to harvest fish during a religious ceremony.
Michael Tobler   +2 more
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The Virtuous Manioc and the Horny Barbasco: Sublime and Grotesque Modes of Transformation In the Origin Of Yanesha Plant Life

Journal of Ethnobiology, 2011
Like other native Amazonian peoples, the Yanesha of eastern Peru conceive of plants and trees as having been primordial human beings transformed into their present form at the end of mythic times. The events that led to their transformation can be described as being either ‘‘sublime’’ or ‘‘grotesque.’’ Cultivated plants that underwent a sublime mode of
Fernando Santos-Granero
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Giftfischerei mit Barbasco in den Mangrovesümpfen des Golfes von Guayaquil, Ecuador

1990
Der lateinamerikanische Begriff Barbasco ist eine Sammelbezeichnung fur verschiedene Fischgifte, die aus Pflanzen unterschiedlicher botanischer Zugehorigkeit gewonnen werden (Heizer 1949:277 ff.). Die chemische Wirkung dieser Gifte liegt in der Lahmung der Kiemenorgane der Fische, wobei die Fahigkeit der Fische, dem Wasser Sauerstoff zu entziehen ...
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